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Liveship Traders

6 books in series

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Ship of Magic Publisher's Summary

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships---rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.

For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family---and the ship---may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.

Book 1

Ship of Magic

The Liveship Traders, Book 1

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 35 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

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Performance

4 out of 5 stars
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Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships---rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.

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Ship of Magic: The Liveship Traders, Book 1

The Liveship Traders, Book 1

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 35 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
169

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
154

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
154

From the author of the classic Farseer trilogy,
Ship of Magic is the first part of the Liveship Traders. Set in a land bordering the Six Duchies, Robin Hobb begins her epic of pirates, talking ships, magic, sea serpents, slave revolts, dashing heroes and bloody battles.

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Book 2

Mad Ship

The Liveship Traders, Book 2

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 33 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
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As the ancient tradition of Bingtown's Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship - a rare magic ship carved from sentient wizardwood, which bonds the ships mystically with those who sail them. And Althea Vestrit waits even more avidly, living only to reclaim the ship as her lost inheritance and captain her on the high seas. But the Vivacia has been seized by the ruthless pirate captain Kennit, who holds Althea's nephew and his father hostage.

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The Mad Ship

The Liveship Traders, Book 2

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 34 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

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Performance

4 out of 5 stars
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Story

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Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. However, Vivacia has been captured by the pirate ‘King’ Kennit and is acquiring a keen bloodlust. Bingtown becomes embroiled in a violent political upheaval against the corrupt Jamaillian leader, while the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the mysterious Rain Wilds Traders.

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Book 3

Ship of Destiny

The Liveship Traders, Book 3

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 33 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,587

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,342

Story

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As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city's inhabitants together against the Chalcedean threat. Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship Vivacia from the ruthless pirate Kennit.

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Ship of Destiny

The Liveship Traders, Book 3

By:
Robin Hobb

Narrated by:
Anne Flosnik

Length: 33 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
127

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
113

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
114

The dragon Tintaglia has been released from her wizardwood coffin, only to find that the glories of her kingdom have passed into ancient memory. Meanwhile, Malta Vestrit navigates the acid flow of the Rain Wild River in a decomposing boat, accompanied by the Satrap Cosgo and his Companion Kekki. Against hope, a ship appears in the alien waters, but does it mean rescue, or a further nightmare, for Malta? In ruined Bingtown, the citizens are at war against the Chalcedean mercenaries besieging the harbour.